Film
In 1954, Budd Schulberg wrote his Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. Now 94, the writer and playwright traveled from Menemsha to Scotland this week to see a new stage version of the classic film performed at the Edinburgh International Festival.
“I’m really looking forward to this,” Mr. Schulberg said over the phone before taking off for the week-long trip. In the background his wife, Betsy worried aloud about getting his heart medication on the trans-Atlantic flight.
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The organizers of the Summer Film Series at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival teamed up with the Gazette to bring you reviews by Island kids, here for the summer or year-round, each Tuesday, before each Wednesday film presentation.
Funny Girls on Film
Making Trouble, an amusing documentary with a half dozen comediennes including Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner and Wendy Wasserstein is screening Sunday, July 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven. Gail Reimer, executive director of the Jewish Women’s Archive, will be a special guest at the screening of this film directed by Rachel Talbot. Suggested admission donation is $10.
Sara Nesson had been thinking of leaving filmmaking. She had even taken up blacksmithing. “I think I just wasn’t inspired by anything,” she said this week.
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, tweens, teens, young adults, the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The organizers of the Summer Film Series at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival teamed up with the Gazette to bring you reviews by Island kids, here for the summer or year-round, each Tuesday, before each Wednesday film presentation.
The Powder, the Glory
See it before it comes to PBS in early 2009: The Powder and the Glory, produced and directed by seasonal Menemsha resident Arnie Reisman and Ann Carol Grossman, will screen at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven on Sunday evening, July 20, at 7:30 p.m.